Death By Email

by Carol Hadley

Overview

Mia Ingalls, artist for a travel magazine and approaching retirement, revives an old passion--writing mystery novels. New to the Internet, she quickly discovers chat rooms and happily forms an anonymous relationship with another writer wannabe. For two years they enjoy sharing ideas and challenging each other in a writing game, but the fun ended the day she shared her idea for the perfect murder. Her young and obnoxious boss was nearly killed by her brilliant plot making Mia the prime suspect in a sadly more successful attack on his fiancée. To make things even worse, her internet pal suddenly becomes her deadly stalker.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013931107
Publisher:	eBookIt.com
Publication date:	02/29/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	352 KB

About the Author

I've always been a storyteller-- but I suffer from terminal shyness. Not a good combination. Fortunately, I've been driven by the need to draw since childhood, especially horses. I drew horses on everything; book margins, homework, even the condensation on my grandma's picture windows.

I became a people-watcher, so I could tell stories with my pictures. I specialized in children's portraits and wildlife drawings emphasizing bone structures and the unique ways my subjects moved. Even at rest, certain characteristics make them easily recognizable.

From years of people-watching I had boxes full of sketches; speculating on stranger's occupations and intentions. These notes helped flesh out my subjects making the paintings more real.

There was a fair demand from galleries wanting to display my work, but I rarely had enough pieces for a decent show. Most of my pieces were commissioned and sold before I started them. In 2000, a freak accident while driving a school bus left me with a broken back. I was disabled and unable to work. On the bright side, I was confident that I could support myself with my art. I had the time for it.

About four years prior to the accident, my sister got bored one day and challenged me to write a story involving a child actor, a loopy robot, a talking cat and killer bees. We used a plot machine. Then in 2001, I began losing the use of my hands; it's now too painful to hold pen or brush. Even so, I can't stop studying people and playing my game of ‘what-if.'

I've written a fantasy novel about a talking cat entitled Chatterbox and the Rebooted Beebots. There is a series in the works. In one, Chatt becomes emperor of America. In another story, he stows away on a moon shuttle to help an escaped convict prove his innocence, and he even visits his dark side (Chatt's idea, not mine) while rescuing a kidnapped child.

The mysteries took a bit longer. A writing instructor once dared me to commit murder via e-mail, so I wrote Death by E-mail. A sequel to Death is nearly finished and there are, of course, those horse stories filed in my computer.

I've had many short stories published online and essays printed in newspapers. I currently write for a small town newspaper.

Now, with two fingers, and voice recognition software which produces hilarious bloopers, I write.